Emmanuel Garnier

Central Defender - Free Agent
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The Barranquilla Gazette

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

César Bravo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Barranquilla they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Barranquilla

Yesid García was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Rico Kennedy gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rico Kennedy has just signed for Barranquilla, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Barranquilla training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastián Caballero is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Sebastián Caballero gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Daniel Castillo stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.59 on the card, and the Barranquilla support went home talking about one name.

Market

Barranquilla buy the years ahead of Rico Kennedy

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Barranquilla sign Emmanuel Garnier, one for the future

Emmanuel Garnier is 19, and Barranquilla have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Match

Barranquilla and Valledupar take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

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The Tours Chronicle

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Luc Carpentier is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Mads Bidstrup in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tours this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Tours count the cost of losing Luc Garcia

38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Thimothé David

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Yves Bonnet is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Tours has been clear about where Yves Bonnet stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

Tours put Alejandro Monsalve up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alejandro Monsalve may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

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